So here we have Sandy Hook Lingerie Party Massacre. Let’s say that again, SANDY HOOK LINGERIE PARTY MASSACRE! What do you think of when you see that combination of words? What’s in a title anyway? Does it have a cryptic meaning? Who is Sandy Hook? What on earth am I writing about? Let’s move on…

An SRO is a sheriff that is assigned to a school. They handle crimes, fights, harassment in schools.

In Texas schools at least in Hays school district they are armed with standard police issue tasers/hand guns. They also have rifles and shot guns on lock down.

Currently all middle schools and high schools have 2 SROs on campus at all times, after this event our school district will be adding SROs to the elementary schools. All the entry points into the schools are now going to be equipped with ballistic glass.

As an addendum to this our school district has decided to take 3-10 voulenteer teachers depending on school size and deputize them and allow them to carry while in school.

There was a determination made that arming all teachers would be a bad idea, and alot of teachers ABSOLUTELY wanted nothing to do with being arms in their classrooms. When it was proposed to arm only a few voulenteers and put them through police training course for weapons and engagement training it was a unanimous decision.

That is the current plan that is going through approval. Here is a general link of other districts in texas adopting similar policies or at least considering them.

For years, some areas in the US have allowed "armed classrooms" to deter (or truncate) future attacks, presumably by changing helpless victims into armed defenders. In 2008, Harrold Independent School District in Texas became the first public school district in the U.S. to allow teachers with state-issued firearm-carry permits to carry their arms in the classroom; special additional training and ricochet-resistant ammunition were required for participating teachers.[44] Students at the University of Utah have been allowed to carry concealed pistols (so long as they possess the appropriate state license) since a State Supreme Court decision in 2006.[45][46] In addition to Utah, Wisconsin and Mississippi each have legislation that allow students, faculty and employees with the proper permit, to carry concealed weapons on their public university's campuses.[47][48] Colorado and Oregon state courts have ruled in favor of Campus Carry laws by denying University's proposals to ban guns on campus. Ruling that the UC Board of Regents and the Oregon University System did not have the authority to ban weapons on campus.[49][50] A selective ban was then re-instated, wherein Oregon state universities enacted a ban on guns in school building and sporting events or by anyone contracted with the university in question.[51]Michigan State University as of June 2009, allows students to carry firearms on campus, the university still prohibits knives and other non-firearm weapons however.A commentary in the conservative National Review Online argues that the armed school approach for preventing school attacks, while new in the US, has been used successfully for many years in Israel and Thailand.[52] Teachers and school officials in Israel are allowed and encouraged to carry firearms if they have former military experience in the IDF, which almost all do. However, statistics on what percentage of teachers are actually armed are unavailable.

The SRO program places a police officer in the school with the goal of creating and maintaining safe, secure, and orderly learning environments for students, teachers, and staff. The SRO program reflects the community's desire to ensure that its schools are safe, secure and orderly. SROs represent a proactive strategy designed to bring prevention and intervention into the schools.

If a tragic or immediate threat is made to the students and the staff at the school during the school day, and a trained law enforcement officer was at the school, you would expect the officer to use his training and tools to defuse the threat as soon as possible with the safety of the students and staff in mind. Therefore, that officer must possess all the tools to resolve that threat as quickly and safely as possible.